[OpenAFS-win32-devel] @sys variable name

[Christopher D. Clausen]

On Monday, April 05, 2004 9:58a <deengert@anl.gov> wrote:
> Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>>
>> In Feb 2004, IBM dropped support for Windows NT4 systems.
>> As such they renamed the sysname from "i386_nt40" to "i386_win2k" as
>> documented at:
>>
>>
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/stormgmt/afs/manuals/Library/patch.readme.htm#HDRWINDOWS_PRODUCT_NOTES
>>
>> What is the opinion of the community regarding this change?
>
> Does OpenAFS-1.3.6x run on NT any more? If not go with the new name
> too.

Well, i386_win2k doesn't really cover WindowsXP or Windows 2003 server.

I don't really care as long as binaries will run on all suported
platforms as I do have non-AFS software under the sysnames for various
OSes / processor combinations.  I do think that i386_nt50 would be a
better sysname, but if IBM already picked one OpenAFS should probably
just use it.

Perhaps now might also be a good time to have seperate sysnames for
64-bit Windows?

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Christopher D. Clausen
ACM@UIUC SysAdmin